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Believe it or not, my March 2014 ipsy My Glam Bag arrived today. I actually can’t even believe the mail got delivered today. I thought it may be a record for ipsy because it came so early this month, but I went back and looked and my February bag arrived on the 13th as well.
If you aren’t familiar, ipsy is $10/month and sends its members a beautiful Glam Bag with deluxe samples and full-sized beauty products.
ipsy ships via DHL Global Mail (it starts out as DHL and is delivered by the Post Office)
and took 5 days to arrive this month. In the past it’s taken up to two weeks, so five days is awesome!
ipsy releases the contents of their Glam bags on the 10th of the month and I’ll admit, I was just meh about it when I looked. I always think ipsy is worth the $10/month, but I am not too sure how I feel about the ipsyMatch system. Sometimes it’s right on for me and sometimes it’s not even close.
The March 2014 ipsy My Glam theme was “Destination Beauty” and included items that work on exotic beaches or a simple stay-cation! I believe there were 11 different items that could have arrived in your ipsy bag this month and each subscriber received four of them. Here are the four I received:
~bareMinerals Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in Get Ready ($~9): I am not a lipstick fan so this will be headed to my SIL who is one. I collect all the lipsticks I received and them box them up and pass them on. She’s always thrilled and I don’t believe she will ever have to buy another lipstick again ;).
~NYX Love in Rio Eye Shadow ($6): Totally love all these colors, but I already have so many shadows in these shades. This will likely end up being passed along to a teenage cousin of mine who will be thrilled to get some new stuff.
~Chella Indigo Blue Eyeliner ($24): This will for sure end up in the gift pile because I just cannot pull this color off. I probably wear eyeliner maybe, maybe once a month (and that would be so generous of an estimate) and if I do it’s brown. I will trade this or pass it on to someone who will be able to pull it off and who will love it!
~Pixi Beauty Flawless Beauty Primer ($9): Now this I am keeping! It’s a primer that gives you a glow and will help your makeup stay on longer.
~The Bag: The bag is a little bright, but I love it. It was designed by Klari Reis and is the street map of the city where ipsy started: San Francisco. How cool is that? You can check out the full San Francisco topographical painting here. Totally love.
All totaled I came up with a value of about $48 for the March 2014 ipsy My Glam Bag. It’s probably the exact opposite of the items I would have selected for myself. I would have went for the Pacifica Body Butter, the Nicole by OPI Polish, the bareMinerals LipGloss and the Be A Bombshell Quad. But you win some and you lose some and I have gotten some fabulous ipsy bags these past few months, so I can’t complain! I will find new homes for the items that don’t work for me and keep my fingers crossed next month is a better fit of products for me.
Did you get this month’s ipsy bag? What variations did you get? And what’d you think? If you are interested in subscribing or interested in learning more, click here.
